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- Snapchat now limits free Memories retention to 5GB.
- Paid plans commencement astatine $1.99 per period for 100GB.
- Users get 12 months to export aliases upgrade plans.
I usage Snapchat each time -- since astatine slightest 2016, erstwhile Snap introduced Snapchat Memories. Memories is fundamentally a built-in unreality locker for snaps. You tin group it to automatically prevention everything you capture, aliases prime and take what gets archived.
When Memories first launched, I was surviving successful California and perpetually snapping pinch friends and family successful New York. My group chats were filled pinch speedy photos and videos from my regular life, and I saved each of them to Memories. Fast-forward astir a decade, and I'm still utilizing those aforesaid group chats, which intends I've astir apt sewage thousands of photos and videos stored successful nan app.
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One of nan things I've loved astir Memories is really Snapchat serves them up successful yearly recaps. They're a nosy reminder of really agelong I've been sharing snaps, and I usually extremity up forwarding them backmost into my chats for a laugh.
But here's nan thing: Although I automatically saved my snaps to my Memories, I didn't prevention them to my camera roll. Why would I, even though nan action exists, erstwhile Snapchat stores them successful nan unreality for maine and makes them easy to entree and reshare?
Snap's caller 'Memories retention plans'
Unfortunately, Snapchat conscionable changed really I tin prevention Memories. The app will support my existing ones, but going forward, I will only get 5GB free. If I want to support backing up each threat for illustration I ever have, I'll request to salary for 1 of nan caller retention plans:
- 100GB for $2 per month
- 250GB pinch Snapchat+ for $4 per month
- 5TB pinch Snapchat Platinum for $16 per month
For me, this is much than conscionable different subscription interest -- it's a basal displacement successful really I usage Snapchat to communicate, and really I've treated it for illustration my regular photograph backup strategy for years. If I can't cloud-save snaps each day, each day, without worrying astir retention limits, that changes really I talk to my friends and family, and really I archive my ain life.
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I'm already paying for Google Drive and iCloud. Do I really want to adhd Memories to nan bill, too? Or is it clip to extremity utilizing Snapchat nan measurement I ever person and conscionable stock photos successful group iMessages for illustration truthful galore others do? The older I get, nan alien it feels to still beryllium connected Snapchat -- moreover though I was successful my 20s erstwhile I first downloaded it, and portion of my occupation backmost past was covering it.
How to export your Snap Memories and debar nan retention cap
Snap's caller Memories retention plans mean longtime users for illustration maine person to choose: salary up aliases commencement exporting earlier nan 12-month grace play ends. I chose to export my Memories, and while doing so, I recovered location are 2 ways to do it.
One measurement to export your Snap Memories is by saving them to your device's camera roll. You tin download them straight wrong nan Snapchat app, but you tin only export 100 astatine a time, which gets beautiful tedious if, for illustration me, you've sewage a decade's worthy stored up.
- Open Snapchat and pat nan fastener to nan near of nan camera fastener -- it looks for illustration a "photos overlapping" icon.
- This opens nan Memories screen. Tap nan Select fastener astatine nan top.
- Below nan Memories carousel, you'll spot a grid of Snaps. Swipe to prime up to 100.
- Once you've made your selection, an Export fastener (an arrow-up icon) will look astatine nan bottom.
- Tap Export and take wherever you want to prevention them. Select Download to prevention them locally to your device.
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You'll request to repetition this process successful batches of 100 if you're clearing retired years of Memories. It's not ideal, but it does fto you selectively prevention nan snaps that matter most.
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If exporting 100 snaps astatine a clip sounds unbearable, Snapchat offers a "Download My Data" option. This lets you propulsion your full relationship archive -- aliases conscionable your Memories, if you prefer.
- Open nan Snapchat mobile app and spell to your Profile surface (top near of nan camera view).
- Tap nan Settings cog successful nan apical right.
- Scroll down and prime My Data.
- Choose nan information you want to include. I urge exporting your Memories and different media (including HTML and JSON files). You tin download everything if you want, but it whitethorn beryllium harder to sift done later to find conscionable your Memories.
- Tap Next.
- Choose a clip frame, specified arsenic All Time.
- Tap Submit.
Alternatively, from a desktop, spell to accounts.snapchat.com. Log in, prime My Data, and take nan information scope you'd for illustration (or petition everything). Confirm your email and pat Submit.
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Either way, erstwhile it's ready, Snapchat will nonstop an email pinch a .zip record download nexus to nan reside associated pinch your account. From there, you tin unzip nan compressed record and upload your images to different unreality service, for illustration Google Photos via Google Drive aliases Apple Photos pinch iCloud.
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What are Snapchat Memories?
Memories is nan Snapchat app's built-in unreality retention characteristic that lets you prevention snaps arsenic you return and stock them. You tin entree your Memories by tapping nan fastener to nan near of nan camera fastener -- it looks for illustration a "photos overlapping" icon -- aliases by swiping up from nan Snapchat camera screen. From there, you tin hunt for Memories, edit them, resend aliases stock them, and export them.
When are Memories unreality retention plans launching?
Snap announced nan caller plans connected Sept. 26, 2025, pinch a 12-month grace play for users already complete 5GB.
How overmuch Memories retention are you using?
Frustratingly, Snapchat presently doesn't supply an easy measurement to spot nan size of your full Memories successful nan app.
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The champion workaround is to petition a download of your My Data file. The compressed .zip will see your photos and videos and show their record sizes, giving you a unsmooth thought of really galore gigabytes your postulation takes up. I fishy Snap will yet show really overmuch retention you're utilizing erstwhile it starts prompting group to move to 1 of its caller paid retention plans.
How overmuch free retention do you get?
Every personification still gets 5GB free of Memories storage.
What happens if I don't salary for a retention plan?
Snapchat says it will support your Memories saved for 12 months. After that, if you spell complete nan 5GB limit and don't subscribe, it's unclear. Your Memories whitethorn beryllium deleted aliases simply go inaccessible successful nan app.
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I've reached retired to Snap for clarification, but here's what its announcement blog station says: "We'll supply 12 months of impermanent Memories retention for immoderate Memories that transcend nan 5GB retention limit. Snapchatters tin upgrade to a Memories Storage Plan astatine immoderate time, and arsenic always, will beryllium capable to download their Memories straight to their devices."
Snap says nan "vast majority" of Snapchatters usage nether 5GB of Memories and won't announcement nan change.
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